Sources: ASTM International, West Conshohocken, Pa.; CP staff ASTM Committee C09 on Concrete and Concrete Aggregates is balloting WK70466, New Specification for Supplementary Cementitious Material for Use in Concrete, covering a broad range of binders and offering a better method of gauging their potential than ASTM C618, Standard Specification for Coal Ash and Raw or Calcined Natural Pozzolan for Use…
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Cemex Ventures and partners open Construction Startup Competition
Sources: Cemex Ventures, Madrid; CP staff The venture capital and open innovation unit of Cemex S.A.B. de C.V. is accepting through July 2 applications in the seventh Construction Startup Competition, affording participants capital and piloting prospects, plus opportunities for networking and pitching their business models to top industry investors. Themed “Join the Builders of the Future Now,” it invites the…
Read MoreUniversity of Miami’s Nanni leads ACI 2023-24 officer slate
Sources: American Concrete Institute, Farmington Hills, Mich.; CP staff University of Miami Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering Chair and Professor Antonio Nanni has been elected American Concrete Institute 2023-24 president. His institute activities have included work on ACI Committee 318, Structural Concrete Building Code plus International Advisory and Technical Activities Committees, along with ACI Board of Direction and ACI Foundation…
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